“She was much better than I ever would have been.”
Seems, Nicola Coughlan — who performs Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton — initially tried out for a really completely different Netflix position.
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Yup, Nicola auditioned for the position of Robin in Stranger Issues. In case you want a fast refresher, Robin’s character joined the present in Season three as Steve’s Scoops Ahoy coworker. In fact, the half ended up going to Maya Hawke.
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So, after we requested Nicola over Zoom about what roles she had auditioned for however did not get, she replied, “I auditioned for Stranger Issues a variety of years in the past.”
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“I auditioned to play Robin, Maya Hawke obtained it,” Nicola instructed BuzzFeed. “She was much better than I ever would have been.”
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“It is a good lesson to actors: Watch the stuff you did not get, since you’ll completely perceive the way it’s not private.”
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“You are good for some issues, and you are not proper for different issues,” she continued.
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In case you’re how Maya landed the position, she was initially beneficial to casting director Carmen Cuba by one other actor for a special mission. Within the phrases of Maya herself, “When the brand new season was being written, there was a component in it and I obtained to audition for it. I flew to LA, and I did some chemistry reads with Joe Keery, who’s simply so fantastic and hysterical and wonderful — after which it was historical past.”
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